special offer! "Number eight in the div/orce series features Vancouverites exclusively. Secret Mommy's debut release as a 5 piece band: less digital mayhem, more pop gem with the main attention on Andy Dixon's vocal & guitar-work. It is clear that Andy is further ...
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special offer! "The seventh installment of our DIV/ORCE series, a split 7" series devoted to transcending the trivial boundaries of genre, pairs up two Bay Area acts. Wobbly, a San Franciscan with a vigorous back catalog, including releases on Tigerbeat6, and ...
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special offer! "Andy Dixon is currently manipulating organic sounds into electro-acoustic, pseudo-dance pieces under the moniker Secret Mommy, playing guitar and singing in the outsider improvised rock trio, Winning, and running the experimental record label, Ache ...
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special offer! "Vancouver trio, Winning's sophomore full length is as dour and uncomfortable as it is playful. It's a paradigm sprouted from the seed of improvisation, but nurtured from a dark and claustrophobic sentiment. Structurally, Could We Believe In Magic? ...
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special offer! "Zoë Verkuylen (The Red Light Sting), Mark Colavecchia (North Of America), Dan Tompkins (Got To Get Got), and Chris Vanderlaan (Animal Names / Buzzing Bees). The pursuit for a contemporary definition of "punk" is stretched and incessant. While ...
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special offer! "A collision of a hundred simultaneous ideas, Belgium's Uske Orchestra steamrolls through an unsettling cartoon landscape. They're previous two full lengths (the most recent of those was released on Sonig) are bursting with wrenching anti-segues of ...
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special offer! "Andy Dixon's (aka Secret Mommy) first trek into the world of solo artistry finds himself finger picking guitars into his computer, only to process them into a mangled, yet beautiful collage of sounds. Just as the name suggests, "I Am Compltley ...
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special offer! "Over one year in the making, Plays is Secret Mommy's crowning achievement. Although written in a vernacular native to Secret Mommy, a language of splintered electronic mischief and jarring digital edits, Plays is no doubt an outing from previous ...
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special offer! "Winning's debut release, is an anomaly. Depending on your perspective, it's either a deliberate, meditated attack on rock and punk culture, or an homage and extension of it. The chaotic and seemingly careless execution would suggest the former, while ...
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special offer! "An elegant blend of modern fervor with an old-world charm, Birthday Party glistens with a timeless yet quirky pop panache. Primarily cello, mandolin, vocals, and percussion, The Winks are entirely void of any of the instruments traditionally used ...
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special offer! "While straying far from vocabulary such as "accessible" or "easy", this is Div/orce at its least abrasive. Pairing up two reflections of pictorial solitude and subtle melodic deep woods groan, we have Greg Davis and a member of the Jeweled Antler ...
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special offer! "Roaring through sixteen jagged, misshapen pieces of punk rock in less then 30 minutes, Tokyo's 2UP sweat and wiggle wildly. Teenage Mondo Trash will bring to mind the lost art of punk-house energy and screwball spirit. It's a puzzling and ...
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special offer! "Modern electronic manipulation coalesces with robust and celebratory cartoon melodies on this, the debut full length release by the Danish duo, Jab Mica Och El. After a 7" released on their own label, Champion Robot, and a beautifully crafted ...
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special offer! "A split with KID COMMANDO has (KID606) decommissioning the breakbeat weaponry and and putting flowers in the barrels, easing back into an irie skank that wouldn't be out of place on Sabres Of Paradise's Haunted Dancehall. "Good Times" rides a tinny ...
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special offer! "Eleven electronic / electro-acoustic artists from eight countries unify to pay homage to what listeners of BBC Radio 4's You and Yours radio program have voted as the most significant invention since 1800, beating computers, the internet, and even ...
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special offer! "We are proud to announce the release of RAUHAN ORKESTERI / LAUHKEAT LAMPAAT CD originally released on LP in 2005 on Italian label, QBICO; ten pieces of free-improv-folk-jazz from Finland, with a distinctive foundation of playful vigor and heartening ...
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special offer! "Vancouver's Secret Mommy spent half a year invading public space, equipped with hidden hand-made condenser microphones. He visited his former high school to record a basketball practice; he visited a martial arts demonstration, a children's day care, ...
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special offer! "This is Mr Whyte's debut full length. In fact it's his debut release. We don't know where he's from or where he is now. What we do know is that he lived in Vancouver for some portion of his life (the portion in which this record was created) but no ...
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special offer! "LEAD SINGER reminds me of the moments when I'm climbing the staircase to my bands practice space and I am able to hear 4 bands practicing at once, all at matching volumes. It's a documentation of the rare times when somehow, the cacophony that echoes ...
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special offer! "Swedish trio Kid Commando describe what they do as "new funk", but their dehydrated take on the post-punk idiom recalls the stylish skronk of Scritti Politti and A Certain Ratio rather than the sweat-drenched, slobbering soul of James Brown. Holy Kid ...
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special offer! "WHO BETTER TO DOCUMENT THE TROPICS THEN THE ABSURD? WHO BETTER TO SPIN TALES OF WHITE BEACHES AND EXOTIC BIRDS THEN HE WITH LITTLE PATIENCE? HE WHO WILL DISLOCATE STEEL DRUMS, SLICE PINEAPPLES, BEND BEACH BALLS, AND INDISCRIMINATELY CRUSH VACATION ...
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